#like even completely taking the very close cultural context of nymeria running from the freehold. these men are stupid as fuck!!!

[atopvisenyashill]

i think the young dragon is even more of a dumb ass than aegon the uncrowned bc he doesn’t just make dumb shit mistakes that get him and his allies needlessly killed, he makes THE EXACT SAME MISTAKE that aegon the conqueror made re: dorne and the most stupid and frustrating thing is that aegon doesn’t make this mistake ANYWHERE ELSE.

After the field of fire, does aegon put a storm lord in casterly rock or does he allow loren the last continued rule over the westerlands? when he wipes out the gardener line, does he set up a reacher loyal only to him in highgarden or does he put a stranger there to rule over a people they don’t know and don’t understand? when he takes the riverlands, does he kill indiscriminately for years or does he figure out who the riverlanders hate, get that dude unseated, then find a neutral and respected riverlander to be the new lord paramount? in the stormlands, does orys make an attempt at peace by marrying argella, the last of the durrandan line, or does he just set up shop there and expect everyone to immediately accept his rule??

AND YET. not only is rhaenys like completely useless in dorne (while Visenya meanwhile wins several people over by figuring out what they want - appealing to Sharra through Ronnel & the threat that she can take the Eyrie on dragonback while not actually touching the place, or making sure the people of Cracklaw Point know she’s perfectly willing to give them exactly what they want so long as they don’t fight, for example!!), Rhaenys also kicks off the first dornish war of conquest by burning plankytown, the last stronghold of the rhoynar. Then, to rub dirt in the wound, instead of sticking around to figure out why half the population of dorne disappeared, he leaves a rosby and a TYRELL, the current ruling lord of dorne’s NUMBER ONE OPPS in charge and then fucks off.

so it’s like, well YEAH, first of all, of COURSE they looked at all that fire and blood nonsense and went “these dragon riding mfers followed us across the goddamn globe just to finish the job valyria failed at” bc even IF rhaenys didn’t realize the cultural or historical context of what a dragon rider burning plankytown looks like, it sure looks pretty fucking suspicious from where the dornish are standing. but secondly, aegon doesn’t think through how weird the movement in dorne is, doesn’t think through that it’s gonna piss dorne the fuck off if he leaves a reacherman in charge, he just leaves his people there and gets them killed, then throws a hissy fit for several years that is so violent, he basically ensures the ONLY way to get dorne to submit is to completely and utterly destroy the people of dorne.

THEN DAERON DOES THE EXACT SAME SHIT. he invades unprompted without offering anything - like say, a marriage match with one of his sisters - and doesn’t think twice about the way he’s purposefully and violently agitating the local population, leaves ANOTHER FUCKING TYRELL IN CHARGE without establishing ANY sort of community or common cause with ANY of the dornish lords, then after his group is completely unseated from sunspear, stupidly goes to meet with them thinking he’s got them on the ropes with no fucking proof of that, and gets his dumb ass killed.

like. absolutely no fucking brains in this dude’s head. no wonder jon is such a shitty lord commander if this is his idol akskdk